Joseph Picariello Construction

Joseph Picariello Construction is based in Bolton, well west of the coast, and thirteen of its thirty-one permits are in Marblehead. Contractors do not travel that far by accident; they do it because the same town keeps calling them back. The Marblehead jobs are the substantial kind. A $200,000 kitchen expansion with a deck and stairs addition on Ocean Avenue, completed in 2021 to drawings by architect Robert Zarelli. A $150,000 basement finish and primary-bathroom renovation on Camille Terrace, completed in 2022 to plans by Veronica Hobson. An $8,000 structural job on Green Street in 2022 that took out a bearing wall and replaced it with a steel beam and posts, finished with a coffered ceiling and recessed lighting. Space over a garage on Corn Point Road, finished in 2021. Four more permits sit in Beverly, two in Bolton, two in North Easton and one in Peabody. Two things stand out in that list. The work is architect-drawn, with two of the permits naming the designer, which is the profile of a builder used to working from someone else's plans. And the structural job is telling: pulling a bearing wall and carrying the load on a steel beam is what a homeowner hires out when they trust the builder with the frame of the house. His Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #162989, is active and held in Joseph Picariello's own name. BuildZoom separately lists two different construction supervisor numbers, CS-099010 and CS-040166, both marked active; two supervisor numbers for one person is a directory oddity rather than a verified fact, so ask which is current. BuildZoom's line that he has served clients since 1985 is the directory's own claim. Recent volume has thinned: four of the thirty-one permits fall within the last three years, three in 2023 and one in 2024. BuildZoom also states it holds no customer reviews for him, which is why there is no rating here. If your project is a serious Marblehead renovation with an architect already involved, this permit history matches that shape closely. Ask for two or three of those Marblehead owners as references, and confirm the current construction supervisor number before signing.